1. 19.1 & 2 Kennedy and the Cold War Kennedy’s New Frontier

2. Participation Grade… Do not forget, you will be graded on your participation grade very strictly today… We must cover CH 19.1-3 today… Time is of the essence. You have been warned!!! Happy Friday and see you at the ring ceremony later!

3. Election of 1960; Kennedy Defeats Nixon; Nixon VP (8 yrs.); Unsettled problems remained Candidates; similarities and differences; Power of the Television; Largest voter turnout in U.S history

4. New Cold War Strategies; New Vigor; Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. Lost ground during Ike (Fidel Castro); Not afraid of foreign affairs Build up nation’s military; flexible response 3 rd World Initiatives; Reasons; 1. Peace Corps (1961)  tech., education, health, etc…);2. Alliance for Progress (Good Neighbor Policy)

5. Situation in Cuba BEFORE Fidel, U.S Relations with Batista; Diplomacy with Fidel; Successful? Why? Confronting Communism in Cuba; Bay of Pigs (April 17, 1961); Successful? Why?; Results; Embargo (Feb. 1962); (300/ 1,400) Cuban Missile Crisis(1962); Khrushchev helping Castro; JFK’s response (10/22/1962); quarantine (blockade); 13 days; Ultimately? Results; Khrushchev lost prestige; JFK  Hero; hot-line between S.U & U.S; Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

6. Preparing in Florida….

7. Berlin Crisis; Khrushchev’s plan for Berlin; JFK’s response (Germany should be united) Attempts for peace  Vienna Conference (June 1961); S.U  end U.S military presence; U.S  refused; meeting ends abruptly S.U orders wall to be built; JFK  1,500 troops; neither side wins –BUT- Berlin Wall

8. Kennedy’s New Frontier CH 19.2

9. Kennedy’s New Frontier; Plan for Domestic Issues (civil rights, education, poverty, health) Space; -BUT- conservative congress Kennedy Style; Cabinet  Rob McNamara (Ford, Sec. of Defense); Dean Rusk (Rockefeller Foundation, Sec. of State) Michael Harrington’s The Other America; Min. Wage, Social Security, Welfare System, Blue Ribbon Panel (Women) Equal Pay Act **Many loop holes**

10. Stimulating a sluggish economy; increased prosperity = eliminate social issues Tax Credits to businesses; John. M. Keynes  Deficit Spending; Tax Cuts (middle class)  burden on wealthy Civil Rights; Little influence in congress –BUT- Federal Transportation Commission; Civil Rights Bill (but…) Space Race; S.U  Sputnik (1957) & Yuri Gagarin (1961) orbit earth; U.S  Alan Shepard (1961); Freedom 7 ***Committed to put man on moon before 1970***

11. Several Attempts; -BUT- July, 1969 Neil Armstrong ; Columbia; First man on moon.

12. JFK  National Leader (foreign and domestic) The President is Assassinated ; Nov. 22, 1963; Texas  6 th floor; Texas School Book Depository Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) becomes President Warren Commission; Result?